Saturday, January 2, 2021

Lovely, Still (2008)

hated it. For the record Jack didn't but didn't love it either. We thought this would be a nice end to our Christmas day, because imdb called it "a holiday fable...of an elderly man discovering love for the first time." With Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Adam Scott, and Elizabeth Banks, what could go wrong? The story, that's what.

The third act really pissed me off, and I'm not going to tell you what it was because of my policy to avoid spoilers. Nicholas Fackler directs and writes, with "additional writing" by Tim Kasher.

The music by Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott isn't available to stream.

Burstyn was last blogged for All I Wish and Scott for The Overnight, which was in the middle of his 97 Parks and Recreation episodes and before five of The Good Place and 14 of Big Little Lies, among others. We also really liked his twenty episodes of Party Down (2009-10), which we watched this summer.

Banks was most recently in these pages for voicing a part in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and Landau for a voice in 9. Landau died in 2017 at 89 and was best known for roles in 76 episodes of Mission: Impossible (1966-69, North by Northwest (1959), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Ed Wood (1994), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. This is the only feature fiction film for Fackler and it's Kashler's debut.

We watched it on Amazon Prime video.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are lovelier than I, averaging 73 and 75%, respectively. Oh, well. As my mother used to say, that's what makes horse racing.

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